Better Together Mural

From our experience and talking to lots of teachers and school administrators, these are the most impactful programs we can offer to schools. Projects that span collaboratively across grades allow students to interact with older and younger kids they might not ordinarily get to work with. Knowing kids of different ages is a pretty cool way to inspire kids to work together to improve their community.  

Paint Love artist Christina Wert worked with Indian Creek art teacher Zully Conde (who is now a PL board member!) and PL founder Julie McKevitt  to create an amazing collaborative project for 90 third, fourth, and fifth grade students at Indian Creek Elementary. Indian Creek is a Title 1 where over 80 different languages are represented in the study body!  The team created a mural concept promoting peace, unity, and kindness. All of the students contributed illustrated fairy tales around one of those themes. The result was a beautiful mural that proudly hangs in their school hallway! Julie painted the faces of the children in the classrooms, so the kids could watch and participate in the entire process of the project. While we were installing the piece in the hallway, students kept coming by and getting so excited to see how their contributions came together.